Rivers Residents Benefit From Federal Govt's Monthly Cash Transfer Programme

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A total of 9,588 residents drawn from six local government areas in Rivers have benefited from the Federal Government’s Household Uplifting

The Grievance Redress Officer for Okrika LGA, Mr Diamond Tamunotubo, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Okirika during the disbursement of the fund in the area.

The monthly conditional-cash-transfer which began in 2019, is one of the programmes of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration aimed at assisting a hundred million poor and vulnerable people in the country. “The payment is done monthly and in streams. The payment present being made at present is for batches 10 and 13 with N10,000 being paid to each of the 1,731 persons in Okirika area.“We initially had challenge in the app configuration which was later resolved. We are also managing to made the beneficiaries conduct themselves well,” Tamunotubo said.

“Government paid us last in August 2020 and is paying us again today. We are however grateful to them, hoping that they will pay us the arrears,” she said.

 

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